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Byzacena
Summary
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (Βυζάκιον, Byzakion) was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Diocletian divided the great Roman province of Africa Proconsularis into three smaller provinces: Zeugitana in the north, still governed by a proconsul and referred to as Proconsularis; Byzacena to its adjacent south, and Tripolitania to its adjacent south, roughly corresponding to southeast Tunisia and northwest Libya. Byzacena corresponded roughly to eastern Tunisia or the modern Tunisian region of Sahel.
Hadrumetum (modern Sousse) became the capital of the newly made province, whose governor had the rank of consularis. At this period the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Byzacena was, after the great metropolis Carthage, the most important city in Roman (North) Africa west of Egypt and its Patriarch of Alexandria.
Ancient episcopal sees of Byzacena listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees:
Abaradira
Abari
Abidda (ruins of Ksour-Abbeda)
Acholla (Henchir-El-Alia)
Aeliae (Henchir-Mraba? Henchir-Merelma)
Africa (Mahdia)
Afufenia
Aggar
Aggersel (Abd-Er-Rahman-El-Garis? Tacrouna?)
Ammaedara (Haïdra)
Amudarsa (in the plain of Saïda)
Ancusa
Aquae Albae in Byzacena (in Gabès Governorate)
Aquae in Byzacena (in Gabès Governorate)
Aquae Regiae (Henchir-Baboucha?)
Aurusuliana (in the territory of Henchir-Guennara)
Ausafa
Autenti
Auzegera
Bahanna (Henchir-Nebahna, ruins at Dhorbania?)
Bararus (Henchir-Ronga, Rougga)
Bassiana
Bavagaliana
Bennefa (Oglet-Khefifa)
Bladia (Henchir-Baldia?)
Buleliana
Cabarasussi (Drâa-Bellouan)
Carcabia
Cariana
Cebarades
Cenculiana
Cercina (Kerkennah Islands)
Cibaliana
Cillium alias Colonia Cillilana (Kasserine)
Crepedula
Cufruta
Chusira (Kessera)
Decoriana
Dices (Henchir-Sidi-Salah, Sadic?)
Dionysiana
Drua (Henchir-Bou-Driès)
Dura (Titular See)
Edistiana
Egnatia
Febiana
Feradi Maius (Henchir-El-Ferada?)
Feradi Minus
Filaca
Fissiana (in the plain of Foussana?)
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